field-emission microscope


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Noun1.field-emission microscope - electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid
electron microscope - a microscope that is similar in purpose to a light microscope but achieves much greater resolving power by using a parallel beam of electrons to illuminate the object instead of a beam of light
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The art of magnifying the small reached a new plateau in 1955 when the German-born American physicist Erwin Wilhelm Mueller, who had developed the field-emission microscope (see 1937), devised the field ion microscope, which emitted beams of ions rather than electrons.
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